Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is waiting for legal advice before deciding whether to break his contract with his Astana team, the Spanish rider said on Friday.
Contador is under contract to Kazakh-funded Astana until 2010 but has repeatedly said he would like to leave to join a team with the capacity to support him in a bid for a third Tour de France victory next year…Â Details
Lance Armstrong will compete in next year’s Tour of California, which will feature route changes and be moved from February to May to avoid the rainy season.
The 16 host cities for the May 16-23 road race were announced Thursday via a Twitter exchange between Armstrong, three-time Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The four riders said they will …Â Details
Portugal’s cycling federation has suspended a Spanish doctor for 10 years after finding him guilty of providing illegal substances to riders in the country’s biggest doping case.
The federation says Marcos Marino Maynar provided prohibited substances, including performance-enhancing drugs and materials to mask control samples, to members of the LA-MSS team during the 2008 season …Â Details
There is something fishy about France’s latest probe into the former team of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.
Leaving no stones—or in this case, syringes—unturned in the battle against doping is commendable. Unless, of course, the investigation proves to be little more than a vendetta against the cyclist some French love to hate, convinced as they are that the cancer-survivor can only have triumphed through doping.
The facts: After this year’s Tour, French police descended on a waste management firm, Cosmolys, that many teams use to dispose of their medical trash … Details